Often described as Philippines' last frontier, the Palawan archipelago is a masterpiece of nature. The limestone landscape is coloured in with tropical rainforests, underground rivers, rocky coves and sugar-white sandy beaches.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza is all set to enter into wedlock with Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik in April, two months after she broke her engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza.The media went abuzz with reports of their engagement. However, later Sania's family said there will be no engagement prior to the wedding.Incidentally, Shoaib was earlier alleged to have married another Hyderabad girl, Ayesha Siddiqui, in 2002 over the phone, even though the cricketer said he was merely engaged to her. He was also linked with Bollywood actress Sayali Bhagat.Sania Mirza is all set to enter into wedlock with Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik in April, two months after she broke her engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza. The media went abuzz with reports of their engagement. However, later Sania's family said there will be no engagement prior to the wedding.Incidentally, Shoaib was earlier alleged to have married another Hyderabad girl, Ayesha Siddiqui, in 2002 over the phone, even though the cricketer said he was merely engaged to her. He was also linked with Bollywood actress Sayali Bhagat.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Barcelona's Lionel Messi has deposed David Beckham to top France Football's list of the highest-paid players.

The Argentina forward is said to have made 33 million ($44 million) last year.

Beckham, who has been first or second in each of the last nine years, took home 30.4 million ($40.5 million) in 2009, according to the report.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo was third with 30 million ($40 million), while teammate Kaka was a distant fourth with 18.8 million ($25 million). Thierry Henry was fifth with 18 million ($24 million).

The IPL's governing council had banned Jadeja for one season on instructions from Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president, because he failed to sign the renewal contract with Rajasthan for the ongoing season and attempted to negotiate a new contract with Mumbai. The decision was taken during a hearing chaired by Arun Jaitley, an eminent lawyer and head of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association, following representations from the player and the two franchises involved - Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. Ravindra Jadeja committed a breach on two counts; firstly, by not signing the contract with the Rajasthan Royals for IPL 2010, wherein he wanted to declare himself free from contractual obligations and failed to discharge his obligations under the player trading rules. Secondly, Jadeja's act of meeting representatives of the Mumbai Indian franchise and sending his contract documents to them for inspection and his own admission that he received documents from Mumbai Indians and used them for representation purposes to the governing council, reveal that he was indeed guilty of breaching the operational rules by approaching another Franchise."Jaitley upheld the ban after finding that "the player contrived a situation to his advantage by breaching the player trading rules and not signing his third year contract for IPL 2010 with the Rajasthan Royals", the league said in a statement and also recommended that Mumbai be warned for "having approached a player who was under an obligation to play for another franchise" and said "a more deterrent line of action should be considered" for future offences of this nature.

Mohammad Yousuf is preparing to retire from all forms of international cricket, a direct result it is believed, of the treatment and punishment the PCB handed out to him in the aftermath of Pakistan's recent Australian tour of which he was captain. "I have decided to quit cricket," Yousuf told the Urdu-language daily Jang. "This is not an emotional decision. I consulted my family, friends and elders before taking it."

The board blamed Yousuf for spreading infighting and indiscipline within the side and banned him for an indefinite period - along with Younis Khan - from all forms of the international game. He was subsequently not included in the central contracts list for this year. Yousuf was handed an indefinite ban as per the recommendations of an inquiry committee

Yousuf had taken over the captaincy last year when Younis stepped down following an ODI series loss to New Zealand in Abu Dhabi, at a time he says no one was willing to take the responsibility. Though he hasn't yet specified the reasons behind his decision, it is believed that the PCB's punishment and a lack of support from the board have made his mind up for him.

If it is the final goodbye - and his current mood, say friends, indicates that he is serious - then Pakistan will lose the services of their most accomplished batsman of the decade alongside Inzamam-ul-Haq. He has over seven thousand Test runs from 88 Tests at 53.07, the highest for any Pakistani batsman. He has 39 international hundreds, including 24 in Tests alone. Pakistan are due to play six Tests in England this summer, a prospect they must now consider - if Younis also misses out - without either of their most formidable middle-order batsmen.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

The financial might of the IPL was on display again, when Pune and Kochi became the league's two new franchises, being sold for a value in excess of the original eight franchises combined.

The Sahara group, the biggest patron of sports in the country, became owners of the Pune franchise after offering a staggering US$370m. Sahara, who have been sponsoring Indian cricket for the past 15 years, had bid for the same amount for three cities, but ultimately chose Pune over Ahmedabad and Nagpur. "When we considered the cities, in terms of infrastructure and logistics, Pune came first," Abhijit Sarkar, the head of Sahara's corporate communications, said. "Ït is also close to Mumbai - the commercial capital of India - and Aamby Valley (an upmarket township owned by the Sahara group)."

The other new franchisee is a consortium of five companies called Rendezvous Sports World, which bid US$333.33m for Kochi. It is a consortium with five partners - the Rendezvous group, Parini developers, Anand Shah Estate, Anchor Earth Private Limited and Film Waves. Minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor was involved in bringing the group together, but has no stake in the franchise and his role was limited to encouraging the consortium that bagged the team. "My role consisted only of encouraging and blessing the venture, and steering it to Kerala. Shailendra Gaikwad of Rendezvous World Sport said, "We have closely been following every development within the IPL, right from the inaugural year. Today, I am very happy for our consortium of Rendezvous World Sport and the people of Kochi as we finally have a team to call our own in this amazing city-based sports franchise".

There were three other qualified bidders, including Adani Enterprises and VC digital solutions Pvt Ltd (Videocon), who were in the fray to become part of the IPL.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The most common way of describing a network is the International Standards Organization's Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model, also referred to as the OSI seven-layer model. The seven layers of the OSI model areas follows:

Levels 1 through 3 are network specific, and will differ depending on what physical network you are using. Levels 4 through 7 comprise network-independent, higher level functions. Each layer describes a particular function (instead of a specific protocol) that occurs in data communications.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Standsonline.com website offers a wide variety of TV stands, TV mountable rack and various design stands like speaker stands, TV mounts, flat panel mounts, and audio/video storage racks and tv stands for hi-fi and TV components/ For two channel audio, home theater in a box, or even the latest in flat panel displays that very attractive cost. Various manufactures like Bello, Sanus, BDI and etc.

Standsonline.com offers very attrative discounts and providing free shipping all over the world. This campaign is very useful and we can design our home with fine furniture from Bello, Sanus, BDI.

Bello offers a full line of TV Stands, audio/video furniture, audio furniture, home theater furniture, and entertainment centers, including plasma TV stands, DLP stands, LCD, projection TV stands, speaker stands and TV Stand. Bell'O contemporary furniture is constructed of combinations of three different types of materials: metal, wood, and glass. All metal is covered with a high impact, scratch resistant, powder-coated finish.

Sanus Systems manufactures a broad variety of TV Stands, audio video and other interior furnishings, TV wall mounts and accessories that will satisfy even the most demanding A/V enthusiast or interior designer.

In BDI, you'll find a collection of furniture pieces, BDI TV stands that are unique, functional and great looking. Our Home Theater collections are engineered not only to meet the demanding needs of today's electronics, but to do so with TV stand that enriches the home and the home theater experience. With integrated features such as hidden casters, adjustable shelves and wire management, a BDI Home Theater system successfully merges functional innovation with original and exciting Design.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

It has been a great that Broadband forum has completed 2 years and very useful for broadband customer. It has been started in the year 2007, completed 2 years now and to celebrate this acheivement management has launched a broadband blog to compliment the forum, which has been serving millions of visitors every year. This forum will list the separate sections for Airtel broadband, which has emerged as promient members most preferred ISP in India although there is still a lot of room for improvement. Bsnl broadband has been doing well in some areas. Now Broadband forum hav planned to add sections that will relate to the television and entertainment industry, which will let members, discuss about tata sky, dish TV and other direct to home television providers. It will be helpful for visitors to view their point and will be benefitted through this forum, since all the leading ISP providers are listed in separtae column. But as of now Reliance have featured in this forum and Broadband forum does not have a section about wimax so they have launched a separate Reliance wimax forum which solely concentrates on wimax. Once Nokia launched their first wimax enabled phone which is due to be launched in January next year we will launch a mobile wimax forum within the new wimax broadband forum which will take care of mobile wimax related problems. This will be great for visitors all the ISP providing company are featured in same forum.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

London Gatwick Airport is located 5 km north of the centre of Crawley, West Sussex, and 45.7 km south of Central London. It is London's second largest international airport and second busiest by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. Gatwick has the world's busiest single-use runway and is Europe's leading airport for point-to-point flights. In 2008, Gatwick ranked as the world's 28th-busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers, 9th busiest in terms of international passengers and 8th largest in Europe by passenger traffic.

Near to airport you can find a hotel Gatwick, very famous hotels and maintains a very suitable stay for the tourist, who travels long way from different places. They provide good hospitality, tourist can find good boarding and lodging in pleasant manner. They can feel like heaven while they check-in at hotel Gatwick. hotel gatwick provide 24 hrs check-in and check-out. Hotel Gatwick is popular for their incured from tourist. A tourist has wriiten in a forum that hotel Gatwick is cheapiest hotel to stay and feel the goodness of London.

only hotel providing the parking facilities. very famous hotels are Hilton hotels, Marriot hotels, Best western hotels. Hotels provide a Free inclusive car parking at Best Western Gatwick, located near to the airport, this hotel is ideal for a short stays. Gatwick hotels with free parking are good for tourist who make use of it.

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